What we have:

We have been scraping data from the TfGM Open Data Portal.

The scoop loops are being scraped once every minute.

We have access to the following variables:

  • The scoot loop’s unique identifier.
  • The time it was last scraped.
  • The location of the scoot entry and exit (and thus the length of the loop).
  • “Average speed”.
  • “Link travel time”.
  • “Congestion percentage”.
  • “Current flow”.

Where the scoot loops are:

Initially we are looking at four scoot loops surrounding a single junction, at the intersection of Wilbraham Road and Barlow Moor Road.

Showing the start points on a map:

And the end points:

One day of data (unsmoothed):

One day of data (smoothed):

Smoothing out the trends for easier interpretation (note that the default method causes some aberrations such as negative values which can be ignored):

Last week of data (unsmoothed):

Last month of data (unsmoothed):